Rose Tico

Key events in Rose Tico's story

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~11 ABY - Birth on Hays Minor

Rose is born to Hue and Thanya Tico on Hays Minor, a poor mining world in the Otomok system, a few years after her sister Paige.

~20 ABY - Childhood with Paige

The sisters grow up flying their grandmother Etta's Z-95 simulator and watching fathier races. Their mother tells them that whatever their world lacks, they will always have the sky.

~33 ABY - Resisting the First Order on Hays Minor

The First Order takes over the planet's mines. Rose blows up twelve OreDiggers and stops mining for three days. Her parents urge both daughters to go and find the Resistance.

~33 ABY - Joining the Resistance

Admirals Ackbar and Holdo welcome Rose and Paige into the Resistance, and they join Cobalt Squadron, Rose as a mechanic and Paige as a gunner. When they learn the First Order has wiped out their people, Leia Organa offers her condolences and the sisters commit themselves to the cause.

~34 ABY - Rose's trucks on D'Qar

Rose builds wheeled trucks from the D'Qar junk heap. On a test drive she rescues Paige from a ravine, and together they find valuable durasteel ore.

34 ABY - Atterra mission

Rose and Paige fly aboard the bomber Cobalt Hammer on a fact-finding mission to learn what the First Order is doing to the settlements in the Atterra system.

34 ABY - Freeing the Raddus hangar

After studying the Raddus's manuals, Rose finds a Calamarian reboot code that opens a jammed hangar door, so X-wings can launch to help Poe Dameron.

34 ABY - Battle of D'Qar and Paige's death

While the Resistance evacuates D'Qar, Paige gives her life to destroy the Dreadnought Fulminatrix. Rose is devastated.

34 ABY - Meeting Finn

While guarding the escape pods during the chase through the Oetchi system, Rose stuns Finn as he tries to leave. Together they work out a plan to disable the First Order's hyperspace tracker aboard the Supremacy.

34 ABY - Mission to Canto Bight

Rose, Finn and BB-8 look for the Master Codebreaker, are arrested, and escape with the help of the slicer DJ. They free the abused fathiers, and Rose gives her Resistance ring to the stable boy Temiri Blagg.

34 ABY - Captured aboard the Supremacy

DJ betrays the group once they are inside the flagship. Rose bites General Hux, and she and Finn are saved from execution when Holdo rams the fleet. They escape to Crait in a stolen shuttle.

34 ABY - Battle of Crait

Rose flies a ski speeder against the siege cannon and crashes into Finn's speeder to stop his suicide run. She kisses him before passing out, and escapes unconscious aboard the Millennium Falcon.

34 ABY - Recovery and the Attack on Ryloth

Rose recovers aboard the Falcon, and she and Finn agree to stay friends. When the Resistance's hideout on Ryloth is betrayed, she helps coordinate the escape.

34 ABY - Mission to Mon Cala

Rose repairs the Falcon with Leia and goes with her to Mon Cala. She intervenes in Rey's rite of challenge, chases down a Quarren saboteur, and sees the Mon Calamari join the fight.

34 ABY - Mission to Minfar

Rose names the Falcon's porgs. After a crash landing on Minfar, she helps free the Zixon from the First Order's Echo Horn.

~35 ABY - Commander of the Engineering Corps

Leia promotes Rose to lead the Engineering Corps, where she develops technology to counter hyperspace tracking and First Order jamming.

35 ABY - News of Palpatine's return

On Ajan Kloss, Rose hears the decoded spy message about Darth Sidious and the Final Order. She stays behind to study the specifications of old Imperial Star Destroyers.

35 ABY - Battle of Exegol

Rose serves on the landing team that boards the Steadfast, and reluctantly leaves Finn and Jannah behind to take down the ship's navigation transmitter.

35 ABY - Victory celebration

Rose celebrates the Resistance's victory on Ajan Kloss and gets a big hug from Chewbacca.